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OverviewThe book focuses on the phenomenon of predation during the closing decades of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century in Indias western littoral. It attempts a material history of piracy, locating its antecedents, its social context, and its ramifications at a crucial time of political transition. Alongside, it revisits the idea of piracy as a category that was largely constituted by regimes of power and regulation in the high seas and in littoral waters. In the case of India and the Indian Ocean, the pirate was a particularly maligned figure thanks to the discourse put forward by the English East Company. The book unravels the making of such a discourse, while remaining attentive to fissures and tensions within the discourse. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Lakshmi SubramanianPublisher: OUP India Imprint: OUP India Dimensions: Width: 14.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.462kg ISBN: 9780199467044ISBN 10: 0199467048 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 22 September 2016 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order ![]() Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsPreface; Note on spellings and archival citations; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Setting: Littoral Society in Transition; Chapter 2 The Company at Sea: Petitions, Predation, and Reprisals 17901805; Chapter 3 Towards an Ethnography of Piracy: Musings of a Resident; Chapter 4 Docile Subjects and Subaltern Resistance: Piracy in the Age of Maritime Radicalism; Chapter 5 Piracy in Retrospect: The Challenges of a Fragmented Archive; Epilogue: Perspectives from the Littoral; Appendix; Bibliography; Index; About the AuthorReviewsSubramanian's study breaks new ground in piracy and Indian Ocean studies ... her thoughtful discussion of the issues that can sur-round the use of colonial archives to reconstruct complex and often problematic phenomena should become required reading for anyone setting out to reconstruct the history of the colonial experience in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Pacific worlds. * Richard B. Allen, The International Journal of Maritime History * an insightful and valuable contribution to the field of pirate studies ... [Subramanian] widens the possibilities of the field and lights the way for future studies of piracy. * Timothy Riding, History * an insightful and valuable contribution to the field of pirate studies ... [Subramanian] widens the possibilities of the field and lights the way for future studies of piracy. * Timothy Riding, History * an insightful and valuable contribution to the field of pirate studies ... [Subramanian] widens the possibilities of the field and lights the way for future studies of piracy. * Timothy Riding, History * Subramanian's study breaks new ground in piracy and Indian Ocean studies ... her thoughtful discussion of the issues that can sur-round the use of colonial archives to reconstruct complex and often problematic phenomena should become required reading for anyone setting out to reconstruct the history of the colonial experience in the late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Atlantic, Indian Ocean, and Pacific worlds. * Richard B. Allen, The International Journal of Maritime History * Author InformationLakshmi Subramanian is Professor of History at Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |